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MAPLE GLIDER’S
debut album
‘TO ENJOY IS THE ONLY THING’
is out now

Announces new tour dates
+ watch new music video
for ‘FRIEND’

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MAPLE GLIDER

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Praise for MAPLE GLIDER

Feature Album – Double J

Feature Album – PBS FM

Album Of The Week – 3RRR FM

Packet Album  – FBi Radio

What a voice! – Zan Rowe

“The Melbourne-based songwriter’s debut is sparse and hypnotic, drawing connections between her experiences of leaving a relationship and leaving a religious upbringing.” – Pitchfork (7.4)

“Sublime” – PAPER

“A piece that tries to unravel the intricacies of a religious upbringing and a relationship, both of which kept her from being her true self” – Bob Boilen (NPR)

“Some voices in indie just hit home” – Stereogum

“Glider’s airy vocals float beautifully throughout the song, with Iansek’s signature slow-burning and evocative production making for a stunning listen” – NME

“As Tradition quivers with its intimacy, drawing from the same deeply personal chord of Julia Jacklin and Angie McMahon, albeit with nuances and touches that make it distinct to herself” – Pilerats

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Maple Glider, the solo project of Tori Zietsch (‘peach’ with a z), today announces new tour dates for Warrang / Sydney and Naarm / Melbourne for this September, in celebration of her debut album, To Enjoy is the Only Thing’s release. See all tour dates below + TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE.

Released via Pieater and Partisan Records (ROW), To Enjoy is the Only Thing is an album full of brittle intimacies, effortlessly balanced instrumentation and not a note wasted. In the singer-songwriter tradition, the Maple Glider project is centered around the lyrics, exploring deeply personal themes and often serving as a self-catharsis, brought to vivid life by the beauty of Tori’s artistry and wry sense of dark humour. Over plucked acoustic guitar or deftly weighted piano chords, Maple Glider shares vignettes of her life; growing up in a restrictive religious household, falling in and out of love, interstate and international relocations, the new perspectives travel can bring along with the alienation of being away from the familiar. LISTEN HERE.

Spoken only as she could, Zeitsch describes the collection as, “walking past tinsel covered trees in mid-September, swimming along the calanques in the south of France, car-bonnet frost, darkness at 4pm, lightness until 10 pm, a muted feeling, the perpetual grey fog that swallows the Silver Coast, the colour red, this ugly green dress, red wine, red blood, red lips, red is the colour of the cardinal’s robe, Switzerland, my mother’s diaries, a coroner’s report, the sun on my face, the end of love, “To enjoy is the only thing. BTCH$!”

Today’s announcement follows the recent music video for the single ‘Friend‘, directed by Athina Wilson of Eye to Eye Productions. Filmed in a grand, Golden Era-esque hall with Maple in performance regalia, she stands alone under the spotlight, singing about a decaying friendship, whilst interspersed are echoes of a suburban childhood. Speaking to its theme, Tori explains: “This song is for an old, good friend. In some ways, it feels like one of the most personal songs on the album. I knew I wanted to write it for a long time before I finally did. It’s a reflection of some of my experience in the music industry from the age of sixteen or so before Maple Glider existed, and the story of a friendship intertwined inside of each of our shiny music dreams. It was turbulent and unbalanced, and we both became a little undone within it. A lot of hurt and healing came to the surface after years of close collaboration, and ‘Friend’ is the result of that.”

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Now with the wind of her debut album beneath her wings, Maple Glider takes flight. Happy Mag has announced that Maple Glider is the winner of the 2021 Needle in the Hay competition – judged from over 3,000 entries. As a result, the goosebumps-inducing album closer ‘Mama It’s Christmas’ will be pressed to 7” in the coming months. Speaking of vinyl, the first pressing of To Enjoy is the Only Thing is available in pearly green wax. It can be ordered in a bundle with a green tie-dye tee with the LP logo up-titled to To “Fang It” is the Only Thing… a personal saying of Tori’s, inspiring one of her tattoos.

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To Enjoy is the Only Thing is out now via Pieater / Partisan Records, buy/stream it here

TRACKLIST

As Tradition
Swimming
View From This Side
Friend
Be Mean, It’s Kinder Than Crying
Good Thing
Baby Tiger
Performer
Mama It’s Christmas

TOUR DATES

Thu 23 Sep – Northcote Social Club – Naarm / Melbourne
Thu 30 Sep – The Vanguard – Warrang / Sydney
Tickets available at mapleglider.com

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Follow MAPLE GLIDER
Website – Facebook – Twitter – Instagram

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ABOUT MAPLE GLIDER

To Enjoy is the Only Thing was written around 2018/19, following the dissolution of a musical project (so well caught in ‘Friend’), Zietsch went travelling and eventually settled in Brighton, UK. It was there she experienced heavy loneliness, and entered a pool of self-reflection. With a Soundcloud literally full of demos she returned to Naarm / Melbourne, enlisting Tom Iansek (Big Scary / #1 Dads / The Paper Kites / Hockey Dad / full credits here) to record, mix and produce the first batch of songs she was ready to get down. During the shared time spent at Pieater’s studio BellBird with Iansek, the wider team got to fully appreciate the wonderful artistry and beauty of Maple Glider, and welcomed her to the family.

Since releasing the first single ‘As Tradition‘ in September 2020, Maple Glider has partnered with a world-class team across the globe – Partisan Records are releasing the music outside of ANZ; Third Side Music for publishing; and Collective Artists (Aus), Mother Artists (UK/EU) and CAA (Americas) for bookings. Her singles ‘Good Thing‘, ‘Swimming‘ and the recent ‘Baby Tiger‘ have attracted over 3 million streams; she’s got fans at NPR Music, Stereogum, Paste, KCRW, Gorilla vs Bear, Consequence, triple j, Double J, NME, Rolling Stone and more; has been playlisted on radio in Australia, NZ, the USA and France including her legion of community radio fans at FBi Radio, Triple R, PBS, SYN, RTR FM, 2SER and Edge Radio; and sold out her debut headline show in Naarm / Melbourne.

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AMNPLIFY – DB